MoveOn is rolling out some cool new tools for political organizing, starting with "VotePoke"--an innovative way to get people registered to vote--and ActivList, an event syndication feed.

The power of the Connected Age is the friction-free creation of large numbers of people to support a campaign and act in concert to impact an issue, legislation or public awareness of an issue -- and the power to let them go not to create the behemoth nonprofit institutions associated with last century. This is what the

Tuesday October 6, Javier Pelaez (a blogger who is interested on science and has a blog that talks about it just as a hobby) asked in his Twitter profile how many persons would write in their blogs about the trim in the Spanish investment and development (I+D) budget. Some blogs began to mobilize themselves; hundreds of users began to support the cause using the social networks, and what began to as a simple tweet finished as a social group of real political pressure.

I'm really pleased with how everything went at PdF Europe's first conference in Barcelona. We had a great mix of political hacks and hackers from all over the Continent, and the conversations buzzing in the hallways before, during and after each session are the best proof that people were connecting to each other in all kinds of fruitful ways. (Indeed, the continuing buzz on Twitter around the hashtag #pdfeu is the best proof to me that we planted many productive seeds at the Torre Agbar.)